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Machine Girl, the newly trio’d New York-based electronic hardcore project helmed by Matt Stephenson, have dropped a new track, “Come On Baby Scrape My Data,” their first new music since 2024's uber-successful MG Ultra. Layering a guttural bassline atop a woozy old-school computer loop, the track conjures a frenetic bounce from the depths of cyberspace. “It was written after experiencing something creepy and fucked up either with A.I. or the surveillance state,” Stephenson reveals. “My phone knows me way too well—which is a feeling we’ve all gotten very used to within the last ten years. The song teases big tech companies, taunting them to come and try to take our data and identities.” It arrives with a fittingly thematic, Matt Stepheson directed video. In it Stephenson plays a paranoid and hallucinating Data Junky, holed up in a hotel room. The project, which is coming off an EU tour that included a Primavera play, will perform at select U.S. live dates this year, including their annual Halloween show in NYC, a festival appearance at Levitation, and an LA show at The Fonda Theatre. Dates below.
2024’s MG Ultra incited the most enthusiastic critical applause of the band’s career so far. Pitchfork professed, “Their music together plays like the soundtrack to the final boss level of some finger-blistering bullet hell, ” and Dazed mused, “it’s hard to imagine a better soundtrack for the revolution than Machine Girl.” The subsequent tour went on to sell over 55,000 tickets, with the album garnering millions of streams becoming one of their biggest albums to date.
MACHINE GIRL LIVE DATES October 30 - Knockdown Center, NYC (Annual Halloween Show) November 1 - Levitation Halloween Freakend November 20 - The Fonda Theatre, LA
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